Marine Reserve for East Coast
ew Zealand’s sixteenth marine reserve is to be established off the East Coast of the North Island. The reserve, named Te Tapuwae o Rongokako, comprises an area of 3450 hectares, near Whangaroa, north of Gisborne. Th proposed reserve results from a joint application by Ngati Konohi and the Department of Conservation, and is the culmination of nine years of leadership and work by the late Jack Haapu, a kaumatua of Ngati Konohi. His wish was to see his tribe’s traditional food-gathering area protected ‘as a nursery and a sanctuary for the benefit of future generations.’ The name, Te Tapuwae o Rongokako, recalls the legendary footsteps of a famous ancestor. Those ‘footsteps’ still hold a rich diversity of marine habitat, ranging from sandy beaches to intertidal reef platforms, inshore reefs, kelp forests
and sediment flats. The area is regarded as one of the most spectacular and interesting
marine environments in the Gisborne region.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 294, 1 November 1999, Page 5
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